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delwoode:
I would like to have jkdefrag start defragging when ever my computer is idle for ( you could set a time 10mins or whatever)

wr975:
Use the screensaver installed with jkdefrag/MyDefrag.

FWIW, the new jkdefrag is now called MyDefrag:
http://www.mydefrag.com/
http://www.mydefrag.net/ (GUI)

delwoode:
Use the screensaver installed with jkdefrag/MyDefrag.

FWIW, the new jkdefrag is now called MyDefrag:
http://www.mydefrag.com/
http://www.mydefrag.net/ (GUI)
I knew about the screensaver technique, Its not what i want and i hate screensavers and have them disabled


-wr975 (August 24, 2009, 10:13 AM)
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skwire:
I would like to have jkdefrag start defragging when ever my computer is idle for ( you could set a time 10mins or whatever)
-delwoode (August 24, 2009, 07:55 AM)
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Is this as simple as starting/stopping the MyDefrag.exe process?

MilesAhead:
You could use the Task Scheduler in Windows.  The gotcha' with scheduling defraggers after some period of "idle time" is that the idle detection almost always only checks the CPU usage.

When I bought my first Vista PC I didn't know defrag.exe was in the task scheduler by default.  In the middle of running JkDefrag Windows decided my computer had been "idle" long enough to start defrag.exe.  Yup!!  It ran defrag.exe in the middle of a disk defrag job!!!  Talk about stupid!!!

Unfortunately in Windows they don't make it easy to detect the disk usage.  That's why I posted awhile ago asking if somebody had a "disk busy" detection algorithm.  Basically, it's a pita and I wouldn't mess with it.  Better if you want that feature to try to get a defrag suite with that feature built in.  Presumably the defrag programmers know enough about the innards to detect when the disk has been at low usage for a period of time.

My feeling is I'd rather run them manually.  But I only have 2 PCs.  I could see if you had a bank of machines you'd want to automate it.  Still, it's generally not good to do a defrag inside a defrag. :)

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